Sybil is a studio dedicated to the research, development and distribution of weird gaming.

Through its residency and public program started in 2025, Sybil has incubated a scene of media artists, game developers, storytellers, and gamers, performers, protocol designers, world builders, and researchers.

We live in a time where the old models of culture are dying and the new cannot yet be born. AAA studios have shed tens of thousands of developers, art institutions are hemorrhaging money and their aura is fading and the skills and crafts needed for today’s cultural production are …

Sybil nurtures a type of weird gaming.

Weird gaming is an open descriptor that merges the most globally popular cultural medium of the last decade — gaming — with the critical strategies and aesthetics of the art world and the technical savvy of creative R&D. Our expanded understanding of what games can be ventures beyond the confines of legacy institutions, genres, and worlds.

Functioning as a dark companion to technology, weird gaming allows us to experiment with social norms, toying with speculative systems and autonomous protocols, simulating ludic ecologies and fringe infrastructures, and things yet to be named.

Sybil shelters contemplative experiments

It is our mission to introduce a new model for the contemplative study and production of deep, long-horizon works that challenge the accelerated artificial landscape of contemporary culture.

artists and studios contributing to our public programme include:

Softethix, Miles Peyton, Sofia Defino Leiby, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Shuruq Tramontini, Elliot Burns, Dr. Rico Norwood, Morgane Billuart, Meii Soh, Theresa Tomi Faison, Trevor Paglen, New Models, Mat Dryhurst, Restless Egg.

The list of all time residents include:

Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Martix Navrot, Julia Koffler, Joaquina Salgado, Arvin Arta & Linden Derichs, Everything Is Computer, Bianjie (邊界), Mark Mushiva Mark, Callen Langford, Harriet Davey, dmstfctn, Branford Meentzen, Jira Duguid, Mina Amiri Kalvøy, Ian Berman, Lisa Derichs & Leonardo Reuvenkamp, Simone Mine Koza, Michael Fowler, Peter Polack, Gregory Nachmanovitch, Salvador Marino, Laura Radzewicz, Lena Peplińska, Jasmin Halama, Song Xin, Andara Shastika, Yi Li, Xiying Wang, Steph Holl-Trieu, Klara Debeljak, Samuel Baidoo, Tea Strazicic.

*********

In 2011, near , 's daughter is framed for murder and sent to prison. She works together with various allies to hunt down the person responsible for her framing: prison chaplain , a loyalist to who seeks the creation of a new universe shaped to the late vampire's will.

"Prior to her incarceration, Jolyne pricks her finger on a pendant given to her by her estranged father, which is revealed to contain a fragment of a Stand-bestowing Arrow. This causes Jolyne to manifest her Stand, Stone Free, before being visited by Jotaro, who attempts to break his daughter out while revealing that she was framed by a follower of Dio, but it is revealed to be a trap set for Jotaro as a Stand named Whitesnake extracts Jotaro's memories and Star Platinum in the form of two discs, leaving him in a coma. "

SYBIL